FA Cup 1st round draw

And who would have thought that 10 years after losing home and away to Hayes and Yeading in the Conference, Chris Wilder would be managing in the Premier League , yesterday beating Arsenal 1-0 at home , and be in 9th place. (Ok it’s early days and they are four points from Europe and four from relegation).

Was just looking at the Rageonline database, to remind myself what was my personal low point of the Conference years.....

…...and it also reminded me what a ridiculous impact Wilder made when he joined the club.

After losing at Salisbury on Boxing Day just after he joined (which was a pretty low point) to drop us close to the relegation zone, in the league we then went WWWWWDWWWLWDWWWDWDWWW.....before the final ill-fated flag-waving day against Ryan Clarke and Northwich.

That, plus the following season and especially Wembley, is why I will always forgive CW for his chippiness and the subsequent stagnation in League Two and am continually pleased to see him have such an insanely successful career post-Oxford.
 
Now I would say that Aldershot was a result waiting to happen. Wasn't it just after a few players were left in London after a game against QPR, and Aldo was in advanced talks to leave for Liverpool. Moral was shocking at the time. Still, it did introduce us to Martin Foyle...
Absolutely frozen pitch ,Div 1 side didn't fancy it against div 4 minnows....
 
Was just looking at the Rageonline database, to remind myself what was my personal low point of the Conference years.....

…...and it also reminded me what a ridiculous impact Wilder made when he joined the club.

After losing at Salisbury on Boxing Day just after he joined (which was a pretty low point) to drop us close to the relegation zone, in the league we then went WWWWWDWWWLWDWWWDWDWWW.....before the final ill-fated flag-waving day against Ryan Clarke and Northwich.

That, plus the following season and especially Wembley, is why I will always forgive CW for his chippiness and the subsequent stagnation in League Two and am continually pleased to see him have such an insanely successful career post-Oxford.

I still remind people of that 100 points in a calendar year.
 
Floodlight failure at Poole FC. ko due 20.20 to allow lights to cool down.

sorry ko due 20.05
 
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I will be very surprised if this isn’t on BT or BBC.

Its a proper David vs Goliath. Which is what they look for, in the hope of an upset.
 
Hayes is nice and local and easy to get to for everyone, what is the weekend this could be played over?
 
Annoying. I’d already been out and bought some new Speedos ahead of our trip to the seaside.

I’m not planning on wasting them so watch yourselves on the terrace at Hayes.
 
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